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Oh yeah, the website could use a redo (again). I explained my point poorly, so let me try again. Imagine you're a GM looking through the Pathfinder 2e reddit. You read about Strength of Thousands and think an African-inspired magical school campaign would be great for your players. You go to...

I've thought about this for a while, and I've come up with a few reasons why discussion around PF2e on this forum and a few others is low: The system is great, the world is awesome, the marketing is terrible: Paizo's designers have made a truly great product in the TTRPG space, I fully believe...

If that’s the intent with this new scoring policy I’m highly against that. Doesn’t matter it’s meant to boost or diminish WOTC works, I’d rather have them compared flat out to the competition. The curve being laid out also doesn’t make sense to me; I thought Ravenloft was pretty good and...

I'm sure Minigiant is aware of this. I think what we all agree on is that currently there is preference to leave 5e rules and systems intact at the expense of setting lore on magic or whatnot, while we would prefer the opposite.

Agree 100%. I also think this is the case, and I sort of feel this way about 5e being the base ruleset for many third party settings as well. For whatever reason people are not interested in setting-specific systems, but will buy the hell out of a setting port into 5e, even sci fi or...

I have to agree, scoring these books is probably not worth the effort. Given the huge size of the 5e player base there are lots of buyers out there looking for incredibly different things in a book: as a DM, Curse of Strahd has been my best purchase, closely followed by Volo's. I imagine...

I like how this principle is what keeps the undead state of Geb relevant as a trading power and gives them allies instead of being a target for constant crusades: their undead majority population needs little food, so their massive agricultural surplus makes them an excellent trading partner...

Golarion is not Earth, it doesn't respond to the same development pressures. It hosts dozens if not hundreds of sentient species, while we have one. Most governments are still hereditary monarchies while Earth at the same time in the setting is transitioning to more meritocratic governments...

Now this I would buy. The VTM5e crb layout is ass, I’d take this format over the original one any day.

The setting material for Arcadia is really enticing to me, I’ve wanted new and refreshed villain factions and calls to adventure for a while and it sounds like my speed: a cabal of technocrat industrialists with a clockwork army, a theocracy worshiping pazuzu, a Wild West bandit gang run by a...

As a customer of various VTT services, I would prefer they just not report on my activity to a third party. I value my privacy over assembling a report on RPG trends.

The SCP Foundation has realized Lovecraft's idea of a shared literary universe far more comprehensively by building everything upon the Creative Commons Commercial Share-alike license. Anyone can use anything from the SCP Foundation for personal use or profit with no restrictions (save the...

I would like that as well, but that would require a rather herculean effort of tracking and polling to get a clear picture of. The Orr groups quarterly reports are the "best" estimate we have, though all it really tells us is that Wotc, Chaosium and Paizo are the RPG triad and no one else has a...

Can confirm. It's very nice, in case anyone hasn't heard. Anyone have a clue as to why VTM suddenly rose? Was it just seasonal with Halloween, or has there been something going on to make the system more approachable? The first printing 5th ed book I have is so god damn unreable because of...

I view ASIs as a storytelling tool to create hooks to play into or against character types. Having all elves in a setting get a bonus to DEX, for example, creates expectations about how PC and NPC elves conduct themselves, like the kind of armor and weapons they use, since the players are aware...

Well reading about how relatively common this still is was depressing. I thought this kind of superstition was left behind decades ago. Liches are still in the game, still function the same. Hell, everyone knows just how bonkers Lovecraft's politics were and yet Pathfinder goes extensively...

I'm more tepid on this name change than the Race to Ancestry change and Paladin to Champion. Race is a very loaded word so retiring it makes sense. Paladins being a sub-set of Champions future-proofed the entire class for all alignments/codes of conduct rather than baking in the LG aspects...

I know this is a little off topic, but I think regarding Paizo and Wotc as direct competition where one is going to eat the other's lunch is a common but mostly untrue sentiment. Interest in the hobby of tabletop games is increased when there are more participants in it, so any game doing good...

This isn't replacing any of the existing conviences for 2e like AoN, which I mean both in the positive sense that Paizo isn't squashing the free/cheap options to promote this one and in the negative sense that it doesn't particularly do anything that isn't already offered in some capacity...

I know, and it makes me sad and confused. Being this divergant from the critical concensious makes me feel like I'm an idiot for overlooking something, but I genuinely think critics have been poo-pooing this man's work for the wrong reasons. I hope studios keep Denis Villeneuve working despite...